Patents by Inventor Manika Varma-Nair
Manika Varma-Nair has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9006161Abstract: Disclosed are rheology modifiers comprising compositionally disperse polymeric compositions and/or crystallinity disperse polymeric compositions that may be useful in modifying the rheological properties of lubrication fluids, and methods for making such compositions. The compositionally disperse polymeric composition are formed from at least two discrete compositions of ethylene copolymers. The crystallinity disperse polymeric composition are formed from ethylene copolymers having at least two discrete values of residual crystallinity.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Sudhin Datta, JoAnn M. Canich, Liehpao O. Farng, Rainer Kolb, Vera Minak-Bernero, Eric B. Sirota, Thomas T. Sun, Mun F. Tse, Manika Varma-Nair
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Patent number: 8859821Abstract: The invention relates to polyketone compounds and the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, the use of said polyketone compounds and/or the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof as plasticizers, processes of making polyketone compounds and the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, compositions comprising the polyketone compounds and/or the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, and to articles formed from products of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Allen D. Godwin, Kenneth J. Buturla, Karla S. Colle, Gabor Kiss, Kirk C. Nadler, Abhimanyu O. Patil, Edris Eileen Pike, Ramzi Y. Saleh, Jon E. Stanat, Manika Varma-Nair, Stephen Zushma
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Patent number: 8815992Abstract: Tetraesters of a C4-C5 aliphatic tetracarboxylic acid and OXO-alcohols and plasticized compositions containing said tetraesters are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Lisa Saunders Baugh, Enock Berluche, Karla Schall Colle, Manika Varma-Nair, Ramzi Yanni Saleh, Jon Edmond Randolph Stanat, Stephen Zushma, Victor DeFlorio
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Patent number: 8614277Abstract: Isotactic polypropylene ethylene-propylene copolymer blends and in-line processes for producing. The blends may have between 1 and 50 wt % of isotactic polypropylene with a melt flow rate of between 0.5 and 20,000 g/10 min and a melting peak temperature of 145° C. or higher, and wherein the difference between the DSC peak melting and the peak crystallization temperatures is less than or equal to 0.5333 times the melting peak temperature minus 41.333° C., and between 50 and 99 wt % of ethylene-propylene copolymer including between 10 wt % and 20 wt % randomly distributed ethylene with a melt flow rate of between 0.5 and 20,000 g/10 min, wherein the copolymer is polymerized by a bulk homogeneous polymerization process, and wherein the total regio defects in the continuous propylene segments of the copolymer is between 40 and 150% greater than a copolymer of equivalent melt flow rate and wt % ethylene polymerized by a solution polymerization process.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2012Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Gabor Kiss, Patrick Brant, Robert Patrick Reynolds, Jr., Aspy K. Mehta, Manika Varma-Nair, John W. Chu, Steven P. Rucker
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Publication number: 20130131256Abstract: Disclosed are rheology modifiers comprising compositionally disperse polymeric compositions and/or crystallinity disperse polymeric compositions that may be useful in modifying the rheological properties of lubrication fluids, and methods for making such compositions. The compositionally disperse polymeric composition are formed from at least two discrete compositions of ethylene copolymers. The crystallinity disperse polymeric composition are formed from ethylene copolymers having at least two discrete values of residual crystallinity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2013Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Sudhin Datta, Jo Ann M. Canich, Liehpao O. Farng, Rainer Kolb, Vera Minak-Bernero, Eric B. Sirota, Thomas T. Sun, Mun-Fu Tse, Manika Varma-Nair
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Patent number: 8389452Abstract: Disclosed are rheology modifiers comprising compositionally disperse polymeric compositions and/or crystallinity disperse polymeric compositions that may be useful in modifying the rheological properties of lubrication fluids, and methods for making such compositions. The compositionally disperse polymeric composition are formed from at least two discrete compositions of ethylene copolymers. The crystallinity disperse polymeric composition are formed from ethylene copolymers having at least two discrete values of residual crystallinity.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2010Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Sudhin Datta, Jo Ann Marie Canich, Liehpao Oscar Farng, Rainer Kolb, Vera Minak-Bernero, Eric B. Sirota, Thomas Tungshi Sun, Mun Fu Tse, Manika Varma-Nair
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Patent number: 8318875Abstract: This invention relates to processes for producing an isotactic propylene homopolymer having more than 15 and less than 100 regio defects (sum of 2,1-erythro and 2,1-threo insertions and 3,1-isomerizations) per 10,000 propylene units; a weight-averaged molecular weight of 35000 g/mol or more; a peak melting temperature of greater than 149° C.; an mmmm pentad fraction of 0.85 or more; a heat of fusion of 80 J/g or more; and a peak melting temperature minus peak crystallization temperature (Tmp?Tcp) of less than or equal to (0.907 times Tmp) minus 99.64 (Tmp?Tcp<(0.907×Tmp)?99.64), as measured in ° C. on the homopolymer having 0 wt % nucleating agent.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Exxonmobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Aspy K. Mehta, Manika Varma-Nair, Gabor Kiss, Robert P. Reynolds, John W. Chu, Steven P. Rucker
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Publication number: 20120225998Abstract: Isotactic polypropylene ethylene-propylene copolymer blends and in-line processes for producing. The blends may have between 1 and 50 wt % of isotactic polypropylene with a melt flow rate of between 0.5 and 20,000 g/10 min and a melting peak temperature of 145° C. or higher, and wherein the difference between the DSC peak melting and the peak crystallization temperatures is less than or equal to 0.5333 times the melting peak temperature minus 41.333° C., and between 50 and 99 wt % of ethylene-propylene copolymer including between 10 wt % and 20 wt % randomly distributed ethylene with a melt flow rate of between 0.5 and 20,000 g/10 min, wherein the copolymer is polymerized by a bulk homogeneous polymerization process, and wherein the total regio defects in the continuous propylene segments of the copolymer is between 40 and 150% greater than a copolymer of equivalent melt flow rate and wt % ethylene polymerized by a solution polymerization process.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Gabor Kiss, Patrick Brant, Robert Patrick Reynolds, JR., Aspy K. Mehta, Manika Varma-Nair, John W. Chu, Steven P. Rucker
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Patent number: 8211968Abstract: The present invention relates to plasticized polyolefin compositions comprising a polyolefin and a non-functionalized hydrocarbon plasticizer.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2010Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Henry Wu-Hsiang Yang, Wen Li, Bruce R. Lundmark, Chon-Yie Lin, Chia Yung Cheng, Bryan R. Chapman, Petra Eiselt, Galina Ourieva, Manika Varma-Nair, James N. Coffey, Sandra Denise Schregenberger, David J. Lohse, Norman Yang, Jeffrey Theodore Zudock, Robert Jay Wittenbrink
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Patent number: 8173748Abstract: Provided is a heat-seal resin. The resin includes 5 wt % to 95 wt % of a first copolymer and 95 wt % to 5 wt % of a second copolymer based on the total weight of the resin. The first copolymer and the second copolymer together are 90 wt % or more of the total weight of the resin. The first copolymer includes a first monomer of an alphaolefin of 2 to 4 carbon atoms and a second monomer selected from a second monomer of an alphaolefin of 2 to 8 carbon atoms. The first monomer and the second monomer of the first copolymer are different. The first copolymer has an MFR of from 5 to 1000 g/10 minutes and a Tfm of 66° C. to 80° C. The second copolymer includes a first monomer of an alphaolefin of 2 to 4 carbon atoms and a second monomer selected from a second monomer of an alphaolefin of 2 to 8 carbon atoms. The first monomer and the second monomer of the second copolymer are different. The second copolymer has an MFR of from 0.5 to 5 g/10 minutes and a Tfm of 45° C. to 66° C.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: David John Lohse, Thomas Tungshi Sun, Aspy K. Mehta, Gabor Kiss, Robert Patrick Reynolds, Jr., John W. Chu, Manika Varma-Nair
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Publication number: 20120108726Abstract: The invention relates to polyketone compounds and the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, the use of said polyketone compounds and/or the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof as plasticizers, processes of making polyketone compounds and the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, compositions comprising the polyketone compounds and/or the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, and to articles formed from products of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2012Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: Allen D Godwin, Kenneth J. Buturla, Karla S. Colle, Gabor Kiss, Kirk C. Nadler, Abhimanyu O. Patil, Edris Eileen Pike, Ramzi Y. Saleh, Jon E. Stanat, Manika Varma-Nair, Stephen Zushma
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Patent number: 8138269Abstract: Isotactic polypropylene ethylene-propylene copolymer blends and in-line processes for producing them. The blends may have between 1 and 50 wt % of isotactic polypropylene with a melt flow rate of between 0.5 and 20,000 g/10 min and a melting peak temperature of 145° C. or higher, and wherein the difference between the DSC peak melting and the peak crystallization temperatures is less than or equal to 0.5333 times the melting peak temperature minus 41.333° C., and between 50 and 99 wt % of ethylene-propylene copolymer including between 10 wt % and 20 wt % randomly distributed ethylene with a melt flow rate of between 0.5 and 20,000 g/10 min, wherein the copolymer is polymerized by a bulk homogeneous polymerization process, and wherein the total regio defects in the continuous propylene segments of the copolymer is between 40 and 150% greater than a copolymer of equivalent melt flow rate and wt % ethylene polymerized by a solution polymerization process.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2008Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Gabor Kiss, Patrick Brant, Robert Patrick Reynolds, Jr., Aspy K. Mehta, Manika Varma-Nair, John W. Chu, Steven P. Rucker
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Patent number: 8115034Abstract: The invention relates to polyketone compounds and the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, the use of said polyketone compounds and/or the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof as plasticizers, processes of making polyketone compounds and the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, compositions comprising the polyketone compounds and/or the at least partially hydrogenated products thereof, and to articles formed from products of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Allen D. Godwin, Kenneth J. Buturla, Karla S. Colle, Gabor Kiss, Kirk C. Nadler, Abhimanyu O. Patil, Edris Eileen Pike, Ramzi Y. Saleh, Jon E. Stanat, Manika Varma-Nair, Stephen Zushma
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Publication number: 20120022197Abstract: Provided are compositions, processes for making, and processes for using mixed triglycerides as plasticizers. Triglyceride plasticizers can be produced by recovery of linear or branched C4 to C13 aldehydes from a hydroformylation product, oxidation to linear or branched C4 to C13 acids with oxygen and/or air, recovery of the resulting acids, combining the linear or branched C4 to C13 acid with benzoic acid, toluic acid or a combination thereof to form a mixed acid blend, and esterification of the mixed acid blend with glycerol, wherein the total carbon number of the triester groups ranges from 20 to 25 and includes from 1 to 2 aryl groups for greater than or equal to 45 wt % of the plasticizer. Such plasticizers can be phthalate-free and provide outstanding properties including a suitable melting or pour point, glass transition temperature, low volatility, increased compatibility, increased hydrolytic stability, and excellent low temperature properties in a range of polymeric resins.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2010Publication date: January 26, 2012Inventors: Jihad Dakka, Edmund Mozeleski, Lisa Baugh, Allen Godwin, Manika Varma-Nair
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Publication number: 20110257317Abstract: Tetraesters of a C4-C5 aliphatic tetracarboxylic acid and OXO-alcohols and plasticized compositions containing said tetraesters are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Lisa Saunders Baugh, Enock Berluche, Karla Schall Colle, Manika Varma-Nair, Ramzi Yanni Saleh, Jon Edmond Randolph Stanat, Stephen Zushma, Victor DeFlorio
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Publication number: 20110230680Abstract: The invention comprises lubricating compositions and hydraulic to fluids containing N,N?-diaryl-o-phenylenediamine compounds that impart good levels of oxidation inhibition in the lubricants and hydraulic fluids. The invention further comprises a method of making N,N?-diaryl-o-phenylenediamine compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Abhimanyu O. Patil, Jacob J. Habeeb, Michael E. Landis, Manuel A. Francisco, Manika Varma-Nair
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Patent number: 7977286Abstract: The invention comprises lubricating compositions and hydraulic fluids containing N,N?-diaryl-o-phenylenediamine compounds that impart good levels of oxidation inhibition in the lubricants and hydraulic fluids. The invention further comprises a method of making N,N?-diaryl-o-phenylenediamine compounds.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2007Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Abhimanyu O. Patil, Jacob J. Habeeb, Michael E. Landis, Manuel A. Francisco, Manika Varma-Nair
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Publication number: 20110098390Abstract: Provided are compositions, processes for making, and processes for using mixed triglycerides as plasticizers. Triglyceride plasticizers can be produced by recovery of linear or branched C4 to C13 aldehydes from a hydroformylation product, oxidation to linear or branched C4 to C13 acids with oxygen and/or air, recovery of the resulting acids, combining the linear or branched C4 to C13 acid with benzoic acid, toluic acid or a combination thereof to form a mixed acid blend, and esterification of the mixed acid blend with glycerol, wherein the total carbon number of the triester groups ranges from 20 to 25 and includes from 1 to 2 aryl groups for greater than or equal to 45 wt % of the plasticizer. Such plasticizers can be phthalate-free and provide outstanding properties including a suitable melting or pour point, glass transition temperature, low volatility, increased compatibility, increased hydrolytic stability, and excellent low temperature properties in a range of polymeric resins.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Jihad Mohammed Dakka, John Mozeleski Edmund, Saunders Baugh Lisa, David Godwin Allen, Manika Varma-Nair
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Publication number: 20100273693Abstract: Disclosed are rheology modifiers comprising compositionally disperse polymeric compositions and/or crystallinity disperse polymeric compositions that may be useful in modifying the rheological properties of lubrication fluids, and methods for making such compositions. The compositionally disperse polymeric composition are formed from at least two discrete compositions of ethylene copolymers. The crystallinity disperse polymeric composition are formed from ethylene copolymers having at least two discrete values of residual crystallinity.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Inventors: Sudhin Datta, Jo Ann Marie Canich, Liehpao Oscar Farng, Rainer Kolb, Vera Minak-Bernero, Eric B. Sirota, Thomas Tungshi Sun, Mun Fu Tse, Manika Varma-Nair
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Patent number: 7807769Abstract: This invention relates to an isotactic propylene homopolymer having: more than 15 and less than 100 regio defects (sum of 2,1-erythro and 2,1-threo insertions and 3,1-isomerizations) per 10,000 propylene units; an Mw of 35000 g/mol or more; a peak melting temperature of greater than 149° C.; an mmmm pentad fraction of 0.85 or more; a heat of fusion of 80 J/g or more; and a peak melting temperature minus peak crystallization temperature (Tmp?Tcp) of less than or equal to (0.907 times Tmp) minus 99.64 (Tmp?Tcp<(0.907×Tmp)?99.64), as measured in ° C. on the homopolymer having 0 wt % nucleating agent.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2007Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Aspy K. Mehta, Manika Varma-Nair, Gabor Kiss, Patrick Brant, Robert P. Reynolds, John W. Chu, Steven P. Rucker, Peijun Jiang